So how does it come they had to ruin the M7 by making it a tier 5 light tank? I do surely understand that the tank was suppose to have been a replacement for the M5 Stuart but I still do not understand why they had do make this change. I believe it was not a especially unbalanced tank. Sure it may have had a great DPM but at the same time it suffered from a high skill cap, not being able to withstand a single hit. It is a sad day to be a M7 lover. may you rest in peace, you, greatest of all medium tanks. :'(

It was hidden gem.
The thing is, with the Chaffee line going to the T71, M7-T21 is really fucking pointless. T21 is the definition of mediocrity.
They should just drop the T21 and make a second USA medium branch from M7

It’s tier 5 and it’s unchanged, which means :
-yes, it hasnt been nerfed. So it keeps both AP and HEAT. However its AP is bad and the HEAT is terribke too and only works in a few lucky cases. I failed to pen the front of PzIVs 15m away from me :/

-It also has not been buffed. So it still has absolutely 0 splash, and 0 stun.

Basicaly it’s not better than before but it’s not worse either. And as arties are now limited and they cannot platoon, you will not see 3x LeFH18B2 platoons in any team, and this is what made LeFH OP, when they platoon, because of their rof. Otherwise when alone and without splash in the new MM they are actualy weaker tham before.

Lel…tier 5 souts with 264 hp…now kv2 can splash to death that in range of few meters…and vk without symbolic 105 mm…this game dont have sense…gj wg…you will not have players for 2 years if stay with this tactic

This is a fucking joke!
They give Ru 251 on tier ix and first, take away 10 km/h of speed, second, increase the reload time up to 0,8 s, which means less dpm and let the dps – damage per shot – the same and third let the armor which every tier i can pen, the same. Well done !!! Dont forget about the factor less exp and more repaircost 🙂
This means still less chance against all autoloaders esp. the french tier ix hermaphrodite BC 25 t (med/light), and mostly in tier x randoms.
I loved my Ru, now it`s crap.
Well done my friends, well done !!!

Actually this whole update is a bad joke. WHY are they taking the diversity of playing style of the lights? Who actually gave a shit about tanks of one tree not having the same playstyle? WTF is wrong with them? Why are all Tier VI Lights now a clone of eachother? That is completely ridiculous. Just like the view range nerf of the new lights. WHY THE FUCKING FUCK should a light not have view range? Take the armor, weaken the ammo rack, take the gun compeltely away, but just fucking leave the only means of fighting a little shitty SCOUT has in the game. The mofoking view range. Damn am I angry at Wargaming for destroying the game like this when obviously those changes are utter bs.

It’s not just the tier 10 lights that are shit. With almost no exceptions every single light tank in the game is now complete shit.
The only ones I see being even close to playable are…. t71, vk leopard and all the premiums….

I keep hearing a lot of people claim to know the roles of LT’s, yet they all seem to bitch about how they can’t fight like a regular tank… I don’t understand how a light scout tank ships be able to go head to head with anything outside its class. It’s a damn mall cop class, observe and report people, not sidescrape and fight! And this endless trail of tears for the SPG’s is absolutely lovely. Frankly I think they should be done away with, but I’ll accept their inability to comprise whole platoons as a victory.

Yeah but at the same time you can carry more easily. Toptier tanks have a huge advantage because lowetiers might have more problems to kill them ; and thats especialy true the hugher in the tiers you play.

Now that they are limited to 3 or 5 per game, tier Xs have a much easier time playing especialy armored ones ; because lower tiers have troubles killing them and get killed too quickly. So while MM puts more noobs with you, you do not rely on them as much as before and can have a bigger impact on your own.

And bottom tier tanks have a better time aswell because there is less dangerous tanks at once in battle.

While this patch could have been better, 9.18 world of tanks is perhaps the best overall state the game has ever been in a long long time. Arty is still not fixed in my book but its an improvement. Tier 10 lights need a buff, but its better to introduce them crappy then introduce them as OP. They need more view range. Should probably increase the game’s limitation on max spotting distance beyond 445 also. 410 view range should be the absolute minimum on a Tier 10 light.

What’s the point of spending equipments to reach 600m view range when the game is hardcapped to 445m view range anyway :/

If WG wanted to make LTs buy scout equipments while having a useful base view range ; they could have given them the special perk of having extended view range cap to 525m (render range cap) while reducing the view range cap for other classes to 420m. And boom, problem solved. Maps are too small anyway.

but to my feels it becomes besides of viewrange somehow stronger 😉 it fealt better in my eyes, while amx 13 105 is a bad joke….stats of sandbox 1 should have been kept…then everything would have been fine 😉

#DeNerfScouts10, WOT proved once again the lack of brain cells, killing the game one patch at the time, my count down when I´ll stop paying my premium account and go to other game is ticking faster every path

U good. WG update NA server first and wanna MAKE SURE everybody is happy on those stupid change. Other servers will get update soon unless WG finally realized this patch is bad. (Even I don’t think they actually have brain to realize those things)

WG just made light tanks most fearfull… Arty cant make any dmg, I used to make up to 1600dmg with pz sfl 4b now if it get to 600. I guess next update artillery will have handguns mounted on them, no more canons… This game becomed shit, and total fiction.